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Item First, view no harm: An examination of ethics in preserving medical photography(2024-08-14) LaPorte, MollyPhysicians and other healthcare professionals and organizations have used medical imagery – illustrations, diagrams, models, videos, and photography – for centuries, for educational, clinical, research, and marketing purposes. Once these images are no longer useful or outdated, they are either disposed, forgotten, or transferred to a suitable archival repository where they await secondary use. It is this secondary historical value that drives the archival endeavor, but for some materials, those that make us take pause, the value they add to future research and societal memory should be balanced against our concerns. In this case, privacy and empathy. While much medical imagery contains potentially sensitive and graphic subject matter, photographs and videos depicting real clinical patients pose a significant ethical question: How are archivists to proceed in preserving such intimate depictions of human pain and suffering or healing and joy? This poster presents a case study of my work processing the photograph collection of the Indiana University School of Medicine held at the Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archives. It uses existing scholarship across disciplines to examine the concepts of informed consent, patient privacy, the relationship between patient and provider, image ownership, and trauma-informed archival practice. Holding images of stereotactic brain surgery from the 1970s and infants in casts up to such ideas brings to question the value and harm in making these images accessible to researchers and how archivists can respect the dignity and autonomy of those depicted therein.Item University Library: Recommended generalist data repositories for sharing research data(2024-08-09) Coates, Heather L.This resource was created to help IU researchers choose a generalist data repository when data- or domain-specific data repositories are not available. Adapted from the Harvard Biomedical Repository Matrix at https://zenodo.org/records/10651775.Item Graduate School Archives Internships: High Impact or High Barrier? Preliminary Results(2024-07-24) Rayman, Denise; Spotts, Lydia C.This presentation reports on a SAA Foundation-funded study of the efficacy of archival internships in improving career success in the profession. While variables are vast and complex, our study is limited to identifying the relationship between internship completion and post-graduate employment. While there are studies on the efficacy of internships in undergraduate education, our study is the first research on the efficacy of internships as a component of graduate education for the archival profession. Part one of the study, a survey, is complete and analysis of part two, qualitative interviews, is in progress. We will share preliminary results, including how outcomes differed among surveyed archival science program graduates who completed internships, students who worked in archives, and students who had no experience in archives upon graduation. Internships have a notable impact on emergent archives professionals who are the future of archival work. Formally or informally requiring internships, often unpaid or for only nominal compensation, as a part of education is a significant barrier to entry in the profession for people from historically excluded and persistently underrepresented backgrounds. Per A*CENSUS II, the profession remains majority white (84%). If we continue with the current model, how can graduate programs and the archives profession reduce barriers for students? If ineffective, can we remove the barrier?Item Learn how to negotiate for a more sustainable future(2024-06-30) Macy, Katharine V.; Galvan, Scarlet; Fuson, CourtneyDo you negotiate for resources or services for your library? Did you have to learn negotiation skills and strategies on the job? Did you never imagine that you’d have to understand the nitty gritty of contracts and licensing? If so, you will leave this session aware of a new free resource and community that can support you in developing your negotiation knowledge and skills. The ONEAL Project has developed a new open educational resource (OER) that includes lectures, readings, assessments, and hand-on assignments where learners will not only learn negotiation best practices and strategies but will also begin doing preparation work that can be immediately applied when negotiating on the job. In addition to learning about this resource attendees will learn about the community being created to provide support for library professionals as well as key issues and trends uncovered during community forums and through an interview research study. Note that the project has focused on creating content for academic libraries (community colleges, liberal arts colleges, universities, and related consortia) and MLIS programs wishing to teach this skill set. While the content developed around licensing is geared toward an academic audience, the negotiation strategy and planning techniques in the OER are widely applicable across all types of libraries. The Open Negotiation for Academic Libraries (ONEAL) project has been generously funded through the IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. Learning Objectives: Describe key issues facing library professionals as they negotiate with vendors. Access an open educational resource that will enable them to plan and execute strategic negotiations. Find a community that can support their efforts as they navigate sticky issues during negotiations.Item Get Credit for Your Searches: Our Experience Using searchRxiv(2024-06-24) Hinrichs, Rachel J.; Craven, Hannah J.; Stumpff, Julia C.Librarians build detailed search strategies for evidence syntheses enabling the comprehensive retrieval of studies while taking care that no relevant studies are missed. However, this work may be wasted or lost if the review does not reach publication or if the search strategies are not included with the publication. Further, search strategies that are stored in article appendices may not be preserved in the long-term. To address these problems, in 2022 we started depositing search strategies that we developed for evidence syntheses to a new repository called searchRxiv (pronounced “search archive”). SeachRxiv is an open repository established by CABI Digital Library to support information professionals in reporting, sharing, re-using and preserving their search strategies. In this presentation, we will share our experience with searchRxiv, including the advantages and challenges of sharing search strategies as individual research products separate from reviews. For each challenge, we will share our lessons learned and solutions developed, including a template for uploading multiple searches at a time and an approach to adding search strategies to CVs and digital scholarly profiles. We will also share pros and cons to using searchRxiv as opposed to an institutional repository. Despite challenges we have encountered, since 2022 we have been able to openly share 59 search strategies from 13 evidence syntheses using searchRxiv. Overall, we find searchRxiv to be a scalable approach for highlighting the unique contributions of librarians to evidence syntheses beyond publications, and for enabling re-use and reproducibility of our searches.Item Making Internships Work! A Guide to the Care and Feeding of the Profession for the Working Archivist(2024-04-19) Rayman, DeniseInternships are an important part of how we train the next generation of archivists, but hosting an intern can be yet another burden on the overworked archivist. In this presentation, Denise Rayman, who is the archives internship instructor for the IU Indianapolis Department of Library and Information Science and also supervises student workers at Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archives, will share advice and ideas for how to make internships a great experience for both student and host. Topics will include: ethics of internships, conducting remote internships, developing meaningful work projects for interns, writing grant proposals that include internships, and how to pay interns.Item Beyond the metrics: What do Wikipedia citations mean?(2024-06-06) MacIsaac, Olivia; Odell, Jere D.Recent studies have demonstrated that Wikipedia citations to scholarly articles may be correlated with higher citation rates in the scholarly literature. It is also the case that Wikipedia serves a key role in the dissemination of public knowledge. Wikipedia has supplanted most encyclopedias as a general knowledge source and is one of the ten-most visited web properties in the world. With this in mind some publishers have made a deliberate effort to contribute reliable, peer reviewed information from their venues to Wikipedia. In far many more cases, volunteer editors cite scholarly articles as needed when creating or improving Wikipedia entries. In this study, we examine citations to an interdisciplinary collection of mostly open access journals published in collaboration with an academic library. We measure the citation rate for these articles prior to and after Wikipedia citation. In addition to quantifying the prevalence of Wikipedia citations to these titles, we identify how these citations are used in Wikipedia. By completing a content analysis of these citations, we identify “impact” beyond a count of mentions. These results contribute toward a better understanding of the value of a Wikipedia citation.Item Supporting faculty success through subversive advocacy(Commonplace, 2023-12-12) MacIsaac, Olivia; Coates, Heather L.Our library has encountered a variety of challenges when supporting faculty through the tenure and promotion process. The Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus standards and processes, like that of many others, preferentially reward outcomes and impact over the process of inquiry. Additionally, a narrow range of peer-reviewed products is preferred—journal articles, books, conference proceedings, etc. Given the emphasis on reputation and impact in our campus standards, candidates are expected to demonstrate that their research has had an effect on the world beyond campus. Thus, the range of evidence used in dossiers often centers on funding and citation-based metrics, with other metrics considered as secondary. Over the past decade, the research metrics services provided by our library to faculty candidates has evolved significantly. We began by retrieving traditional bibliometrics and teaching others how to do so. As we repeatedly encountered gaps in the data at the level of individual faculty members, we adopted a more proactive stance in our support. We continually advocate for broader consideration of the types of products that are valued, the range of evidence used in dossiers, and the types of impact discussed in statements. In many cases, we use evidence from the publishing and informetric literature to corroborate individual experiences and advocate for change. As our campus implements a new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) pathway for promotion and tenure, we are challenged to adapt so that we can effectively support faculty who choose this pathway. In this commentary, we will discuss the points of intervention to proactively engage with scholars.Item Moving from piecemeal to systematic: Reprioritizing how academic libraries approach research information management(IOS Press, 2023-12-15) MacIsaac, Olivia; Polley, David E.This paper is based on a lightening talk given at the 2023 NISO Plus conference. The authors explore how research information management (RIM) workflows at universities are increasingly intersecting with library workflows, particularly regarding compliance with federal funding and preservation of the institution’s scholarly record. This paper outlines one academic library’s plan to shift from thinking about library-supported RIM services as a piecemeal approach to a more systematic approach that prioritizes open infrastructure. Though in its early stages of implementation, the authors seek to examine current RIM systems and services at their institution, expand on the current findings of U.S. activities brought forth in reports produced by OCLC and Lyrasis, and to identify local opportunities for library-supported RIM tools/services that are open and transparent. Specifically, this paper emphasizes the implementation and adoption of persistent identifiers, such as ORCID, but discussion will also cover other RIM systems and services.Item Three Newly Uncovered Letters of George Armstrong Custer(Kent State University Press, 2024-04) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Three letters written by George Armstrong Custer, previously unknown to historians and biographers, provide new details about President Abraham Lincoln's visits to the Army of the Potomac in 1862 and the battle of Antietam.